{"id":"DUT-FED-034","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention","authority":"42 U.S.C. 241, 247d (public health guidance; no independent enforcement authority over private workplaces)","instrument":"Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (as revised March 21, 2020)","title":"Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)","dateIssued":"2020-03-21","effective":"2020-03-21","end":"superseded May 6, 2020 (Ex. DUT-FED-035)","startDate":"2020-03-21","endDate":"2020-05-06","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["all businesses and employers (non-healthcare)"],"clause":"Below are changes as of March 21, 2020: Updated cleaning and disinfection guidance; Updated best practices for conducting social distancing; Updated strategies and recommendations that can be implemented now to respond to COVID-19.... Employers should plan to respond in a flexible way... Actively encourage sick employees to stay home... Employees who have symptoms... should notify their supervisor and stay home.... Separate sick employees... Support respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene for employees, customers, and worksite visitors... Perform routine environmental cleaning and disinfection.","enforcement":"none in the guidance","functions":[],"notes":"Recommendation: the CDC\u0027s standard for every employer in March and April 2020 (send symptomatic employees home, separate the sick, hygiene, routine disinfection, distancing, flexible leave, travel restrictions). It became compulsory through the instruments that incorporated it: OSHA\u0027s enforcement plan measures the general duty clause against \u0027the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines\u0027 (Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-020); the CISA guidance directs that essential operations continue \u0027appropriately modified to account for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) workforce and customer protection guidance\u0027 (Ex. FED-394); and the State orders adopted it as a condition of operating (Duties layer, State by State). Character as recorded: agency_guidance_recommendation (\u0027should\u0027).","sourceUrl":"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-business-response.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":532515,"grade":"primary","character":"agency_guidance_recommendation","description":"","collection":"DUT-FED","url":"/library/DUT-FED-034","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-FED-034","citation":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (as revised March 21, 2020) (Mar. 21, 2020) (Ex. DUT-FED-034)","stateName":"","related":["DUT-FED-035","AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-020","FED-394","DUT-FED-063","DUT-FED-064"]}